mixed berry cobbler (twd)

The mixed berry cobbler that Beth chose for this week’s TWD recipe may be Dorie’s least popular recipe so far. The discussion thread for the recipe had one negative review after another, mostly revolving around a lack of flavor in the biscuit topping.

When I got a chance to look at the recipe closer, I was surprised by how poorly it had been received by other bakers. I compared the ingredients of Dorie’s cobbler topping to my favorite shortbread recipe, and they’re identical except for the shortbread calls for 50% more sugar. True, my favorite cobbler recipes call for even more sugar. Keeping that in mind, I added an extra tablespoon of sugar to the biscuit dough. I also reduced the sugar in the filling just slightly.

I knew immediately after making the biscuit dough that my cobblers were going to be delicious. In my experience, there’s a close correlation between how good the dough tastes and how good the baked good tastes, and this was some very tasty dough.

I was right. A few TWD members also commented that there was too much dough per fruit, but the dough was like a big delicious biscuity cookie, so for me, the more, the better. The biscuit had soaked up the fruit’s juices and was saturated with flavor. I generally shy away from serving my desserts with ice cream (do I really need two desserts in one sitting?), but this time, I couldn’t resist adding just a small scoop of vanilla ice cream to add a sweet balance to the tart berries. Absolutely wonderful.

I’ve never had a cobbler before so I’m kinda wondering exactly how much flavor the topping should have! I always thought it was the berries that were solely responsible for the sweetness Anyway, you certainly have a very seductive dessert there, and the very neatly placed biscuit tops are winning me over, heh

Yum yours look wonderful as always! I thought about putting mine in ramekins but shaping dough stresses me out so I figured I’d just make one big circle and be done with it, lol. I still need to photograph mine, it was dark out by the time mine came out of the oven last night. I was really happy with the crust as well, I dunno what all the whining was about this week!

Your mini-cobblers look wonderful! I wondered about all the comments about the dough, and I wonder if it isn’t a problem of preference? I don’t like things overly sweet, so found the dough fine with the recommended amount of sugar. Yours look good!

love the cutie ramekins..i did mine in small bakers too. funny because i tasted my dough even after adding pecans, brown sugar, nutmeg…and i thought it was so yucky. good thing the final result was REALLY tasty. dont’ judge a biscuit by it’s dough? hahaa.